eBooks

Trial: Ebsco e-books

Posted on by jschulze

After launching our new e-book search on findit.lu, we keep on increasing the number of e-books.

We are pleased to announce a trial of the EBSCOhost – eBook Collection. The Academic Subscription Collection is providing around 55 000 titles during the trial.

This package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles that represent a broad range of academic subject matter, including art, business, education, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, religion, technology & engineering, and much more.

You can browse e-books by topic, search for individual titles or download them to portable devices.

During the trial the books won’t be available within the e-book search, but you can access the EBSCOhost – eBook Collection on findit.lu under the letter “E” on the “Find Database” tab.

Alternatively, you can directly start discovering here.

Need help? Download Ebsco’s User Guide  here.

New feature: e-book search

Posted on by jschulze

After a successful trial of a new e-book search during the last weeks, Consortium Luxembourg is today releasing a new e-book search, giving visibility to the 80.000 e-books on findit.lu.

We are still working on further integration of e-books into findit.lu, alongside databases and e-journals. That’s why the current release is “beta”.

ebook-search findit.luSimply click on the “ebooks”-tab which you will find at the top of findit.lu and check it out!

For a long time you only could search for e-books by using the “e-books” QuickSet on our main page. It could take some time to get back results and it was impossible to get an overview of all e-books available. This update gives you a new way to search for more than 80.000 current scientific and scholarly e-books by title, author, ISBN or publisher. Provided that the cover of the book is available, it will also be displayed in your search results.
The number of e-books will increase dramatically as we will be adding older, public domain books, including novels, which have been digitised by libraries around the world.

Please find a detailed tutorial for using the e-book search here.

If you have any questions or would like to provide us with feedback, please feel free to post your comments on this blog. We look forward to hearing from you!

Springer e-Books

Posted on by BPark

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Springer e-books to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.

Access is provided to all English and German language Springer e-books from 2005 to 2010 inclusive.  The books cover a variety of subjects including:

  • Behavioral Science;
  • Biomedical and Life Science;
  • Business and Economics;
  • Chemistry and Materials Science;
  • Computer Science;
  • Earth and Environmental Science;
  • Engineering;
  • Humanities, Social Science and Law,
  • Mathematics and Statistics;
  • Medicine;
  • Physics and Astronomy; and
  • Professional and Applied Computing.

Topics covered in the German collection include:

  • Medizin;
  • Technik & Informatik;
  • Natur- und Basiswissenschaften incl. Mathematik;
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaften; und
  • Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

The e-books are accessible in one of two ways:

1.  If the print edition of the book is in bibnet.lu catalogue, then access to the electronic version is automatically provided from book’s details screen.

2.  Connect directly to SpringerLink e-books using the link that can be found under “S” in the “Find Database” section of the portal or by clicking here.